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Engineering seismology : with applications to geotechnical engineering /

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The scope of engineering seismology includes geotechnical site investigations for buildings and engineering infrastructures, such as dams, levees, bridges, and tunnels, landslide and active-fault investigations, seismic microzonation, and geophysical investigations of historic buildings. These proje...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yilmaz, Özdoğan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tulsa : Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2015.
Series:Investigations in geophysics ; no. 17.
Subjects:
Earthquake engineering.
Engineering geology.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Seismic waves
  • 2. Seismic modeling of the soil column
  • 3. Site characterization
  • 4. Landslide investigations
  • 5. Active fault investigations
  • 6. Seismic microzonation
  • 7. Geophysical investigations of historic buildings
  • 8. Exploration of earth resources
  • Appendix A. Mathematical foundation of elastic wave propagation
  • Appendix B. Body waves
  • Appendix C. Surface waves
  • Appendix D. The discrete radon transform
  • Appendix E. The generalized linear inversion
  • References
  • Index.